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    referred to Jews as a perverse people who God has cursed forever. St. Ephroem refers to synagogues as

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    Violence against Jews was the main feature of Nazi anti-Semitic policies in the years 1933-1939. Explain why you agree or disagree with this view. Violence was certainly a part of Nazi anti-Semitic policies‚ but it can be argued that it was the main feature. The Nazi’s had many other policies against Jews that were not focused on violence‚ but on other ways to make the lives of Jews increasingly difficult. We can certainly say that violence was a feature of the policies of the Nazi’s. And

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    means of assimilation into German society. They were persecuted in numerous ways. The storm troops subjected the Jews to verbal harassments and beatings. Brown-shirted thugs carried out there own forms of torture against the Jews by vandalizing synagogues‚ wrecking Jewish graveyards‚ destroying work places that Jewish people owned and boycotted Jewish businesses. Jews were hunted down by the storm troops and vilified if they were suspected to be having sexual relations with the Germans or Aryan race

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    to punish the Jews and force them out of Germany.. The Germans blamed the Jewish people for an early end of WWI in1918 and the economic hardships that followed the war. From late in the evening on November 9th‚ 1938 through midday on the 10th‚ synagogues‚ shops‚ homes‚ hospitals and cemeteries were destroyed by German storm troopers‚ Hitler Youth and mobs of non-Jewish citizens. In addition to many men‚ women and children being brutalized‚ more than 100 Jews were killed during Kristallnacht. The

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    Chapter 7: Contribution to Healthcare. The contribution of the Jewish community of Bombay is not limited to education‚ economy‚ and architecture alone; they had some very important contributions in the field of healthcare as well. Earlier all initiatives behind medicine and public health were depicted to be entirely British efforts . However this thought was challenged by David Arnold who was a later scholar who states‚ “It is certainly important to recognize the extent to which western medicine

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    IN AN ANTIQUE LAND BY AMITAV GHOSH In An Antique Land is a very capturing and an educative chronicle of a traveler‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ who perfectly weaves Indian and Egyptian history into one single story spread across various time periods. As the contents of the book suggests‚ the novel is divided into six parts namely‚ the Prologue‚ Lataifa‚ Nashawy‚ Mangalore‚ Going Back and Epilogue. The story begins with the Prologue where Ghosh reads a “short article by the scholar E. Strauss‚ in the 1942 issue

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    In the mid to late 1800’s‚ millions of Catholic immigrants began arriving in the United States. In 1815 there were only 80 Catholic Churches‚ 7 priests‚ and 70‚000 Catholics‚ making Catholicism an extreme minority. However‚ by 1916 Catholics were a powerful force with 15.7 million members. The six largest Catholic immigration groups‚ referred to as the “Big Six” included Irish‚ German‚ Italian‚ Polish‚ French-Canadian‚ and Mexican Immigrants. Each immigrant group brought with them their own set of

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    persecution broke out in 38 AD. The Alexandrians demanded that statues of the emperor be erected in the synagogues. Flaccus‚ the Roman governor‚ from his knowledge of the emperor’s peculiarities‚ did not dare to oppose them; he acceded to all the demands. In quick succession‚ Flaccus ordered the placing of statues in the synagogues; and finally permitted a general persecution of them. Some of the synagogues were destroyed‚ and some desecrated with an image of

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    Throughout his ministry‚ people who came across Jesus doubted him. They did not believe in him and did not believe what he was preaching. However‚ through his miracles‚ Jesus was able to prove many of these people wrong and even gained followers along the way. Jesus was able to show all people the Word of God through the miracles he performed in the streets during his lifetime here on Earth. His message was portrayed through these mysterious and extraordinary acts. God sent him to Earth to do just

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    "I Love and I Hate. Who Can Tell me Why?" The 2001 movie The Believer is a true-to-life portrayal of a young neo-Nazi whose anti-Semitic views are continually challenged by his Jewish background. The film opens with the quote‚ "I love and I hate. Who can tell me why?" which sets the stage for the movie ’s depiction of Danny Balint‚ a boy torn between love and hate in almost every aspect of his life. Throughout the film Danny tries to calm this internal (and at times external) quarrel‚ which

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